How Clean Is Your House? In 2002,
Channel 4 contacted a cleaning company looking for "a really good cleaner with quite a funny temperament for a new series." The company recommended Woodburn, aged 60 at the time, who was working as a live-in cleaner for a family in
Kent.
How Clean Is Your House? aired for seven series between 2003 and 2009, with the duo producing books, board games and DVDs due to the popularity of the series. Woodburn was significantly taller than McKenzie, and her usual dress on the programme would be suit jackets, high heels and pearl necklaces, with her hair slicked back in a tight braided bun, the latter of which was described as her "trademark". Woodburn appeared on
The Oprah Winfrey Show in the US, where
How Clean Is Your House? aired on
BBC America. From 2007 to 2009, Woodburn starred in a Canadian version, titled ''Kim's Rude Awakenings'', alongside Mike Chalut. Woodburn and MacKenzie's relationship became strained during later series, with MacKenzie saying that the pair "did not speak" off-camera during the last two series of the show, claiming that Woodburn had "pushed her" during a pantomime they were starring in. Woodburn however said that she had "never said anything derogatory about MacKenzie", further stating that she was "not going to start now", expressing her confusion about the alleged fall out with MacKenzie, stating that she was "unclear where these false allegations have come from but I wish her all the luck in the world".
Television appearances In November 2009, Woodburn was announced as a contestant for the
ninth series of ''
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''. She finished as runner-up to
Gino D'Acampo. In March 2010, she appeared on
Celebrity Come Dine with Me on Channel 4 alongside
Claire Sweeney,
Darren Day and
Tom O'Connor. In 2011, Woodburn became a regular panellist on the
Big Brother spin-off series, ''
Big Brother's Bit on the Side''. In November 2011, she entered the house to set a shopping task which she also judged, while berating the housemates for their hygiene. In February 2013, Woodburn teamed up with chef
Rosemary Shrager, and the pair appeared on the fifth series of ''
Let's Dance for Comic Relief'' as contestants. They danced to "
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" by
Marilyn Monroe. They were eliminated by the panel of judges. In 2014, Woodburn appeared as a contestant on an episode of
The Chase Celebrity Specials. In March 2016, Woodburn took part in the second series of
Famous, Rich and Homeless for
BBC One. Her controversial comments on the lives of rough sleepers and some of them that she met led to a dispute between her, the public and the other volunteers on the show. In April 2016, Woodburn and her husband, Pete, appeared on Channel 4's
A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun in order to find a holiday home in Costa del Sol, which was to be their home during the winter months. Their budget was £320,000 and they were shown five two-three bedroom penthouses. They put offers forward of £285,000 and £295,000 on an apartment but both were turned down by the owner. In January 2017, Woodburn entered the
Celebrity Big Brother house to participate as a housemate in its
nineteenth series, entering on Day 11. During her time in the house, Woodburn was involved in conflicts with several of her fellow housemates, one incident of which she referred to
Jamie O'Hara as an "adulterer", ultimately requiring security to enter the house and intervene. She gained notoriety for her outbursts, several of which featured Woodburn referring to her housemates as "ganghanded" and "chicken-livered". She finished in third place on Day 32. In August 2018, Woodburn made a controversial appearance on
ITV's
Loose Women. She was asked if she would make amends with
Coleen Nolan (who she fell out with after they both appeared on
Celebrity Big Brother), but left after a reception by the panel that was widely described as "bullying". The incident resulted in almost 8,000 people complaining to
Ofcom. In 2021, Woodburn featured in a Christmas advert for Grainger Market Delivery, an online shopping company. In 2022, Woodburn made various guest appearances on
GB News and was a contestant on the
E4 cooking competition
Celeb Cooking School, where she was eliminated first. Woodburn's final television appearance aired posthumously in September 2025, on an episode of the
Channel 5 programme
Supermarket Own Brands: The Big Taste Test. Filmed a year prior, it featured Woodburn and other consumers testing supermarkets' own brand products against more expensive branded products, and giving their opinions.
Other ventures In 2006, Woodburn wrote an autobiography,
Unbeaten, which detailed her early life. From 15 December 2010 to 3 January 2011, she made her second appearance in pantomime in
Cinderella at the
Woodville Halls Theatre in
Gravesend, where she played the Fairy Godmother. From 11 to 26 December 2012, Woodburn played the Wicked Stepmother in
Cinderella at the
Grimsby Auditorium. She performed in pantomime for the fourth time at the
Southport Theatre in
Jack and the Beanstalk as Fairy Starlight. The season ran from 13 December 2013 to 31 December 2013. From 2014 to 2015, she played Fairy Liquid in
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at
The Brindley in
Runcorn, followed by a 2018 appearance at the
Epstein Theatre in
Liverpool as the Wicked Queen in
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 2022, Woodburn released a range of cleaning products at
Poundland. In February 2025, in what transpired to be her final public appearance, Woodburn was interviewed by drag queen Belinda Scandal for a one-off "In Conversation With: Kim Woodburn" show at
The Lowry, in which she spoke about her life and career. ==Personal life==